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. >> originally from mexico. his whole passion in life is corruption. the family own add discount store. that wasn't where his heart would you say. he was running this family business and his heart was exposing theing bad guy. for a reporter it became the most fantastic training ground. at dinner my father would talk non stop, the mayor is a crook, the senator is a crook, i am going to get that guy. he would have campaigns, whistle blowers, he had stocking bag stuffers. there was an extrodinary house, lucky house, very grateful for all of that who is hilariously funny. he is holder sister, anita brenner was older, worked in the "new york times" in the 1930s. there are many pictures of anita in those family scrapbooks. unfortunately my father hated his older sister, rather than getting to have wonderful times of gertrudestein in mexico, all i heard was she is a monster. they didn't speak. the idea of her, the largeness of her loomed large in the house. >> so you start out, you become a writer for all of these reasons and you are someone who compulsively
. >> originally from mexico. his whole passion in life is corruption. the family own add discount store. that wasn't where his heart would you say. he was running this family business and his heart was exposing theing bad guy. for a reporter it became the most fantastic training ground. at dinner my father would talk non stop, the mayor is a crook, the senator is a crook, i am going to get that guy. he would have campaigns, whistle blowers, he had stocking bag stuffers. there was an...
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it was the usual thing in mexico. the government would say what you could say on the air and what you couldn't say on the air. i decided i didn't want to be that kind of reporter so i sold everything and came to the united states. just imagine that now i can talk to anyone without asking permission for anything. i had to leave my country because of that. it used to be said that the powerful and the rich never leave their country, only those who need possibilities and those who are poor and those who are ambitious leave their countries. that's exactly what happened with me. i came here because i had to come here. something pushed me out of mexico and something pulled me from the united states. now i have two passports, but honestly i have to thank this country because it gave me all the wonderful opportunities. if i would have stayed in mexico, i don't know what would have happened but i would have been a very poor, sad and probably censored journalist. >> why did your parents come? >> my parents came in the 1940s and
it was the usual thing in mexico. the government would say what you could say on the air and what you couldn't say on the air. i decided i didn't want to be that kind of reporter so i sold everything and came to the united states. just imagine that now i can talk to anyone without asking permission for anything. i had to leave my country because of that. it used to be said that the powerful and the rich never leave their country, only those who need possibilities and those who are poor and...
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good chunk have a heritage back to mexico or to latin america. on top of that there is a major war going on, 50,000 people in this drug war. it should be front page news. it's not a matter of superiority. somebody is taking the lead and they are. >> jon: you have been watching. a border agent gets killed from a gun that came into america and was allowed to go into mexico and the obama administration when 14 of the 14 teenagers get killed by some of those same guns, it's not a story for the american media? >> it's not a story, when pakistanis die and afghans die, all we see figures of americans. that is what the american media are. >> is that because some editor is saying, this would make the obama administration, or justice department really look bad. >> i really think, americans don't care about foreign affairs until they see a tank coming up their driveway. i do believe that editors are often reflecting in their home community. we are living next to failed state of co-at this point and it's not getting the press coverage it deserves. >> it's a
good chunk have a heritage back to mexico or to latin america. on top of that there is a major war going on, 50,000 people in this drug war. it should be front page news. it's not a matter of superiority. somebody is taking the lead and they are. >> jon: you have been watching. a border agent gets killed from a gun that came into america and was allowed to go into mexico and the obama administration when 14 of the 14 teenagers get killed by some of those same guns, it's not a story for...
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. >> on a new mexico bridge, a base jumper's ambitious attempt at acrobatics spins out of control as he crash lands on the bottom of a rocky gorge. >> he just died. >> they say if you start base jumping, you're going to die base jumping. it's only a matter of time. >> in 1998, base jumper alex walkling attempts his 98th base jump off the rio grande gorge bridge in taos, new mexico. his brother ralph is there to film it. alex estimates the 600-foot drop will last eight seconds, giving him a four-second freefall before he has to pull the rip cord. >> if you don't pull your chute in time, you're going to hit the ground. that will make it dangerous. >> simply jumping off a bridge isn't insane enough for alex so he decides to make things a bit more interesting. >> i tried to do a front flip half twist into a back flip for my first jump at like 5:00 in the morning. i was barely awake and just not coherent with myself. >> alex's fancy flip work costs him more time than he can afford. he can't deploy his chute in the four second time limit and now he's deep into the danger zone. >> he just d
. >> on a new mexico bridge, a base jumper's ambitious attempt at acrobatics spins out of control as he crash lands on the bottom of a rocky gorge. >> he just died. >> they say if you start base jumping, you're going to die base jumping. it's only a matter of time. >> in 1998, base jumper alex walkling attempts his 98th base jump off the rio grande gorge bridge in taos, new mexico. his brother ralph is there to film it. alex estimates the 600-foot drop will last eight...
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a recall, and we told you about weeks ago expanded now affects products from plants in mexico dating back to march of 2010. the f.d.a. says salmonella in some samples and a california mayor wants to close the soup kitchenens. eric beaver says doing that will help with the city's problems and the councilmembers and charities are arguing that a lot of people on fixed incomes also use the soup kitchens. >> and wounded warriors are running for a cause today in virginia. the run with the warriors race raises money to help renovate apartments and housing for injured veterans and the group says it takes over $500,000 to fix up each unit. and the next story is truly one about man's best friend. a remarkable story indeed. a dog escapes his home in new york and travels get this more than two miles to visit his owner in the hospital. and the owner was hospitalized with a skin condition last week and his wife says zander, sulked and cried from the moment the husband left and zander had to cross a four lean road just to get to the hospital. and the one and only vice-presidential debate is closing
a recall, and we told you about weeks ago expanded now affects products from plants in mexico dating back to march of 2010. the f.d.a. says salmonella in some samples and a california mayor wants to close the soup kitchenens. eric beaver says doing that will help with the city's problems and the councilmembers and charities are arguing that a lot of people on fixed incomes also use the soup kitchens. >> and wounded warriors are running for a cause today in virginia. the run with the...
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. >>> and the fbi is now saying the border patrol agent that was killed near the mexico border was likely the victim of friendly-fire. investigators have found that 30-year-old nicholas ivie's death and the injure to another agent were probably the result of an accidental shooting involving only the agents. a third agent responded to the alarm but was not injured. >>> and american airlines says, all of its boeing 757s will be back in service today. american took all 48 of the jets out of service to fix a problem causing seats to come loose. some of the seats in mid-flight. the airline was forced to cancel dozens of flights to change a bolt that holds down the seats in that aircraft. >>> and conflicting reports out of china this morning about a possible strike at the factory that makes the new iphone. the manufacturer foxconn is denying that its workers have walked out. saying production at the iphone plant has not been interrupted. this follows a report by a labor watch group claiming as many as 4,000 workers are striking because of increased quality control demands. >>> and a massive car
. >>> and the fbi is now saying the border patrol agent that was killed near the mexico border was likely the victim of friendly-fire. investigators have found that 30-year-old nicholas ivie's death and the injure to another agent were probably the result of an accidental shooting involving only the agents. a third agent responded to the alarm but was not injured. >>> and american airlines says, all of its boeing 757s will be back in service today. american took all 48 of the...
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. >>> and the fbi is saying the border patrol agent that was killed near the mexico border was likely the victim of friendly-fire. investigators found that 30-year-old nicholas ivie's death and the death of another agent, were probably an accidental shooting by an agent. >>> and american airlines says, all of its boeing 757s will be back in service today. american took all 48 of the jets out of service to fix a problem causing seats to come loose. some of the seats in mid-flight. the airline was forced to cancel dozens of flights to change a bolt that holds down the seats in that aircraft. >>> and conflicting reports out of china this morning about a possible strike at a factory that makes the new iphone. the manufacturer foxconn is denying that workers have walked out. saying production has not been interrupted. this follows a report by a labor watch group claiming as many as 4,000 workers are striking because of increased quality control demands. >>> and a massive car pileup on a florida highway has left dozens of people injured. there were 12 crashes involving 47 vehicles. 54 peopl
. >>> and the fbi is saying the border patrol agent that was killed near the mexico border was likely the victim of friendly-fire. investigators found that 30-year-old nicholas ivie's death and the death of another agent, were probably an accidental shooting by an agent. >>> and american airlines says, all of its boeing 757s will be back in service today. american took all 48 of the jets out of service to fix a problem causing seats to come loose. some of the seats in...
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. >>> and the fbi is now saying the border patrol agent that was killed near the mexico border was likely the victim of friendly-fire. investigators have found that 30-year-old nicholas ivie's death and the injury to another agent were probably the result of an accidental shooting involving only the agents. a third agent responded to the alarm but was not injured. >>> and american airlines says, all of its boeing 757s will be back in service today. american took all 48 of the jets out of service to fix a problem causing seats to come loose. some of the seats in mid-flight. the airline was forced to cancel dozens of flights to change a bolt that holds down the seats in that aircraft. >>> and conflicting reports out of china this morning about a possible strike at the factory that makes the new iphone. the manufacturer foxconn is denying that its workers have walked out. saying production at the iphone plant has not been interrupted. this follows a report by a labor watch group claiming as many as 4,000 workers are striking because of increased quality control demands. >>> and a massive car
. >>> and the fbi is now saying the border patrol agent that was killed near the mexico border was likely the victim of friendly-fire. investigators have found that 30-year-old nicholas ivie's death and the injury to another agent were probably the result of an accidental shooting involving only the agents. a third agent responded to the alarm but was not injured. >>> and american airlines says, all of its boeing 757s will be back in service today. american took all 48 of the...
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in mexico, a ton of gold mines that were closed because gold was $200. if we get to $2,000, will lots of mines open? >> the expiration right now, the gold mines are much lower grade gold mines, you have to build much bigger mines, they are more complicated to build, and they are not economic to build. there is lots of gold to be found in nevada, but every time they find it, it looks like an uneconomic gold mine. even if it is, it will take ten years to permit it in nevada. >> i think you have that great niche. so glad you watch the show and came on, these are the kinds of companies that need to be bought, if you don't want to own the gld. i don't want the individual risk of the gold you deal with. thank you to sandstorm gold. it had a big run since last friday. if you like gold, sandstorm goes higher. >>> coming up, smart speculation. as science and technology converge, ground-breaking developments in medicine continue to emerge. cramer is focusing in on one biotech that could be on the verge of a major move. >>> remember that therapeutics, the tiny biot
in mexico, a ton of gold mines that were closed because gold was $200. if we get to $2,000, will lots of mines open? >> the expiration right now, the gold mines are much lower grade gold mines, you have to build much bigger mines, they are more complicated to build, and they are not economic to build. there is lots of gold to be found in nevada, but every time they find it, it looks like an uneconomic gold mine. even if it is, it will take ten years to permit it in nevada. >> i...
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fbi officials saying friendly fire was likely to blame near the arizona-mexico border and investigators say they are still looking into the case for definitive answers and, homeland security secretary janet napolitano making a trip to ivie's home, expressing her condolences to his family and several border officials joining her on the trip and the border patrol commander says he died a true hero. >> investigators made progress into the investigation into agent ivie's death. and are looking into the possibility that it was a tragic accident. the result of friendly fire. i explained to agent ivie's family that if the investigation ultimately reaches that conclusion, it changes none of the following facts. that agent ivie gave the ultimate sacrifice and died serving his country. that he died in the line of duty, and will be honored as such, for his final act of service. >> arthel: he died after he and two other agents responded to an alarm triggered by a sensor aimed at detecting smugglers, another agent was wounded and the third not injured. >> rick: switching gears, the summer's drought
fbi officials saying friendly fire was likely to blame near the arizona-mexico border and investigators say they are still looking into the case for definitive answers and, homeland security secretary janet napolitano making a trip to ivie's home, expressing her condolences to his family and several border officials joining her on the trip and the border patrol commander says he died a true hero. >> investigators made progress into the investigation into agent ivie's death. and are...
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and my sister is now teaching school in albuquerque, new mexico. my brother's a lawyer in boerne, texas. c-span: you wrote in the book--you said, 'she went to--on to smith'... >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: ... northampton, massachusetts--'where her mother had gone before her and i went in my turn.' and then you have a little parenthesis, 'i know this is so wasp i'm about to erp myself.' >> guest: can you imagine anything--anything more wasp than your grandmother, your mother and yourself all having gone to the same college? c-span: what about smith? >> guest: smith? it's a good school. c-span: what'd you learn there? what--what--what impact did it have on you? >> guest: i really do think i got a good education at smith. i was not--i--i'm not one of those people who thinks of my college years as a happy golden time. i mean, i was a texan who was up in massachusetts, so first of all i was cold. i mean, i couldn't bel--i was freezing to death the whole time i was up there. and i found yankees rather, in some ways, chilly and difficult compared to the texa
and my sister is now teaching school in albuquerque, new mexico. my brother's a lawyer in boerne, texas. c-span: you wrote in the book--you said, 'she went to--on to smith'... >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: ... northampton, massachusetts--'where her mother had gone before her and i went in my turn.' and then you have a little parenthesis, 'i know this is so wasp i'm about to erp myself.' >> guest: can you imagine anything--anything more wasp than your grandmother, your mother and...
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. >> you see more and more product and cheeses and medicinal products from mexico, much more interest in mexican chocolate, and you see the changing demographics, people demanding higher quality products. >> reporter: high-tend chocolates and cultural artifacts are so popular they are not just fetching top dollar, escondido has begun accepting pesos. >> more mexicans, more pesos. makes more sense of accepting them as a waive providing a public service of the people who come to the shop. >> reporter: mexicans have also taken manhattan, moving in where puerto ricans and dominicans once ran bodegas and beauty shops. >> a lot of mexicans working in factories and hair salons, nail salons, everything, and, you know, from there they got better and some of them you see them now store owners, their own clothe stores, cell phone places, dealers, the same way somebody from mexico can come and do the same thing here. >> reporter: mexican births will soon outpace dominicans and puerto ricans in new york while more dominicans are leaving than arriving, not just moving up but moving out. >> mexicans
. >> you see more and more product and cheeses and medicinal products from mexico, much more interest in mexican chocolate, and you see the changing demographics, people demanding higher quality products. >> reporter: high-tend chocolates and cultural artifacts are so popular they are not just fetching top dollar, escondido has begun accepting pesos. >> more mexicans, more pesos. makes more sense of accepting them as a waive providing a public service of the people who come to...
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/mexico border. the fbi says the death of a border patrol agent and the wounding another agent on tuesday was likely the result of friendly fire. however, the investigation is ongoing. the results of ballistics tests are pending. the agents were shot after responding to a tripped ground sensor near the border in arizona. >>> up close tonight, health officials now say patients in nearly two dozen states may have received steroid shots tainted with a fungus linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak. so far, at least 47 people have been sickened across seven states, five of those patients have died. all of them received steroid shots that came from the same manufacturer in massachusetts. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is following developments closely. he joins me now. there are different types of meningitis, sanjay. which type is this? >> this is something known as fungal meningitis. it's a type of mold, actually. that's what's causing the illness here. bacterial meningitis is a different fo
/mexico border. the fbi says the death of a border patrol agent and the wounding another agent on tuesday was likely the result of friendly fire. however, the investigation is ongoing. the results of ballistics tests are pending. the agents were shot after responding to a tripped ground sensor near the border in arizona. >>> up close tonight, health officials now say patients in nearly two dozen states may have received steroid shots tainted with a fungus linked to a deadly meningitis...
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. >> mexicans are now willing had when they come straight from mexico to take lower paying jobs and to endure some of the exploitation the dominican endured years ago. >> reporter: rodrigo says he finds new york immigrant friendly and rich with opportunity. he began working in new york's kitchens at age 6, then sold tacos off a cart, a taco truck, a taco stand, tacos to go. and now he's the owner of four mexican restaurants. >> you have to work very hard, and we i would never expect to be that successful as we are doing right now. >> reporter: soledad o'brien, cnn. >> soledad's documentary airs tomorrow night 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> a dog stuck in a car grill for more than ten miles. that story is next. where are we going? just a second. just, just one second. ♪ get outta the car. ♪ are you ok? the... get in the car. [ male announcer ] the epa estimated 42 mpg highway chevy cruze eco. for wherever life takes you. and now qualified buyers can get 0% apr financing for 48 months on a 2012 cruze. ♪ is the same frequent heartburn treatment as prilosec otc. now with a
. >> mexicans are now willing had when they come straight from mexico to take lower paying jobs and to endure some of the exploitation the dominican endured years ago. >> reporter: rodrigo says he finds new york immigrant friendly and rich with opportunity. he began working in new york's kitchens at age 6, then sold tacos off a cart, a taco truck, a taco stand, tacos to go. and now he's the owner of four mexican restaurants. >> you have to work very hard, and we i would never...
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friendly fire is likely to blame for the death this week of a border patrol agent along the arizona-mexico border. agent nicolas ivey and two others were responding to an alarm triggered by a censor aimed at detecting people entering the u.s. illegally. ivey was fatally shot. another agent was wounded. >>> health officials say there are now 47 cases in seven states of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak. five people have died after receiving steroid shots for back pain. those shots made by the new england compounding center may have been contaminated with fungal meningitis. >>> food and drug officials confirm that salmonella has been found in new mexico-based sunland, a plant that makes peanut butter products for trader joe's and several other large national grocery trains. the trader joe's peanut butter is now linked to 35 salmonella illnesses in 17 states, most of them california and texas. >>> italy's mount etna is rumbling again. signs of registered activity in a recently opened crater this week. europe's tallest active volcano has seen nine eruptive events this year, but e
friendly fire is likely to blame for the death this week of a border patrol agent along the arizona-mexico border. agent nicolas ivey and two others were responding to an alarm triggered by a censor aimed at detecting people entering the u.s. illegally. ivey was fatally shot. another agent was wounded. >>> health officials say there are now 47 cases in seven states of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak. five people have died after receiving steroid shots for back pain....
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the agents were responding to an alarm that was going off near the arizona/mexico border when they came under fire. >>> a chinese factory that produces iphones is shut down for now as thousands of workers have gone on strike. the employees at fox con factory are upset over increased quality control demands and being forced to work during a national holiday. a labor watch group says workers beat quality control inspectors after management ignored their complaints. this is the latest in a long line of problems at fox con factories. last month 2,000 workers were involved in a giant brawl. >>> safety investigators are looking into a possible recall of some honda minivans and suvs. the national highway transportation safety administration says they have received complaints about the honda odyssey and honda pilot for model years 2003 and 2004. the vehicles reportedly allow drivers to remove the key when the transmission is not in park. that could result in the car rolling away. the safety probe affects more than 500,000 cars. >>> mechanics say soda and coffee could be to blame for the recent
the agents were responding to an alarm that was going off near the arizona/mexico border when they came under fire. >>> a chinese factory that produces iphones is shut down for now as thousands of workers have gone on strike. the employees at fox con factory are upset over increased quality control demands and being forced to work during a national holiday. a labor watch group says workers beat quality control inspectors after management ignored their complaints. this is the latest in...
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we're going to be clear in the mexico round of polls interested to sew if the debate has in fact reset that campaign in terms of these numbers. now you heard a lot about the pathways. that was -- [inaudible] pathways to the 270 electoral votes and how president obama probably has more pathways to that or easier aways of putting that together because it built an advantage in the blue state/red state differences than romney has. let me make a couple of points on this. i'll give you a sense of what it is. start with the obama 237 and you add florida had is 29, he's at 266. and would need any one of the other states to get to 270. if you start again with the 237, and you give romney ohio but you dr you give romney florida but obama ohio. he's at 2 a and obama would need two other states as long as one of them isn't new hampshire in this case. new hampshire has only four e lekial votes. now i'll comment on this. these states are pretty much all very close. and although the campaigns target one state against each other and the odds are targeted to the states. if there's a universal shift, th
we're going to be clear in the mexico round of polls interested to sew if the debate has in fact reset that campaign in terms of these numbers. now you heard a lot about the pathways. that was -- [inaudible] pathways to the 270 electoral votes and how president obama probably has more pathways to that or easier aways of putting that together because it built an advantage in the blue state/red state differences than romney has. let me make a couple of points on this. i'll give you a sense of...
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in 2008, president obama would not have been able to turn florida, new mexico, colorado, nevada, would not have been able to turn those blue and win the election had it not been for the latino vote. in 2010, latinos basically saved democrats from losing the senate, and harry reid says this all the time. so latinos have already been decisive. they could be more decisive. you showed the numbers. if they came out to vote in more numbers. but essentially they will be a very critical part of deciding who the next president will be. and republicans have said that this next candidate, mitt romney, cannot win the white house if he can't get at least 40% of the latino vote. he's nowhere near that right now, randi, so this should be a big problem for republicans. >> amy, latinos say that the democrats have done a much better job in terms of reaching out to latinos and minority voters. what, if anything, do republicans need to do to turn around that perception? is it too late? >> well, interestingly, during the conventions, president obama, he outspent mitt romney 7-1, but the spending that mitt
in 2008, president obama would not have been able to turn florida, new mexico, colorado, nevada, would not have been able to turn those blue and win the election had it not been for the latino vote. in 2010, latinos basically saved democrats from losing the senate, and harry reid says this all the time. so latinos have already been decisive. they could be more decisive. you showed the numbers. if they came out to vote in more numbers. but essentially they will be a very critical part of...
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-mexico border. but i feel certain we will not hear that it is more than $1 billion a day in legitimate trade and how that helps our economy. i think you are going to hear a lot about the middle class. will not hear anything substantive when it comes to folks who are poor and in laura class. if anybody uses those words, i will be stunned. name, what is your question? >> i cover the trade on martin -- the trayvon martin rally in d.c. you talk about aelc. i have not heard anybody talk about it. i am wondering what you're doing as an organization. >> how are you dealing with groups like alec that folks don't know about who are driving legislation? >> the first thing i did was to drop doing business with certain companies as late as last friday. ipod another one. i do it incrementally. another one.ped i'd do it incrementally. companies try to suppress the vote or people who are not with us on the trayvon martin and the stand your ground case. we are looking at all the companies in our organization. i am
-mexico border. but i feel certain we will not hear that it is more than $1 billion a day in legitimate trade and how that helps our economy. i think you are going to hear a lot about the middle class. will not hear anything substantive when it comes to folks who are poor and in laura class. if anybody uses those words, i will be stunned. name, what is your question? >> i cover the trade on martin -- the trayvon martin rally in d.c. you talk about aelc. i have not heard anybody talk about...